Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty⎜WHY POVERTY?⎜(Documentary)

Oh hello one of these people are you you've had a long day at school or was it the office maybe you were shopping now you are home ah relax maybe you want to watch television these people live in constant fear of eviction they had already been forced out what's wrong in this place people die so we can get mobile phones give heard it our before haven't you children working as slaves to usually a mixture of sorrow and cynicism this the world is richer than it has ever been and here there seems to be more poor people than everything economies have been on the edge of a financial and economic precipice you are falling asleep you're going to have a strange dream it starts with this thought if we want to make poverty history then first we need to understand the history of poverty your dream starts in a library full of floating books there are voices that seem to come from the books and speak poverty well power powerlessness connected poverty isn't solved automatically by growth what can we do for them what do they need that's a question which is a little too too general innocence because there is no one answer you are a prehistoric girl or boy you choose and this is your family that doesn't have a car mom doesn't have a fridge and you don't have an iPod but there are plenty of wild animal so you are trying to work out if you are rich or poor at the start of human history at least everyone seems equal you're hungry so that gets dinner if you want to divide a big history of poverty you could divide it into three or four different chapters and you would start perhaps with a hunter-gatherer a hundred governing lifestyle has a lot of great advantages it really takes very little labor to gather enough food enough calories to live and to that extent if what you like doing is lying on a beach in a nice place it's a wonderful lifestyle but it is not a lifestyle that is secure the mood of your dream changes the IC has come and you don't have central heating in your key so you get frozen very quickly perfectly preserved for a future museum exhibit titled poor man the insecurities of a hundred gathering lifestyle is that yes you could die suddenly what if there is a sudden change in climate what if there's a sudden animal flu that kills off the livestock y-you live off of the ability to actually plan for and build in a response to those kinds of changes is almost impossible so much for poverty in the Stone Age with no food or medicine you've died before you could find out much about it now your soul floats all their worlds early civilizations see all the millions of little farmers with their little fields and little hearts everything looks poor except for the one or two policies with the Kings and Chiefs the billionaire's of ancient history virtually everybody in the world was poor poverty meaning lack of reliable access to basic needs whether it's food or water or at least the best known health technology of the day alluded 90% of the world's population life expectancy was on the order of 35 years just about everywhere in the world less than half our current lifespan virtually every community in the world even in the most advanced societies were subject to repeated famine time has moved on thousands of years this is an amphitheater in ancient Greece you have come to see a famous play what you can't afford the price of the tickets so you watch it through the gaps in beings it's about a great gun called poverty it's more or less the first time that there's any sort of debate or discussion about poverty certainly in historical records the set up of the play is that two Athenians have looked at the world and thought there's something wrong here oh who are you I'm poverty I've lived amongst yes oh great Apolo oh you got a nice cape how it's poverty the most evil months have ever breathed upon the earth we shall drive you out of greece 5me party out of greece that would be disaster for Humanity if wealth distributed to everyone equally the no one will ever work hard again no one will want to make clothes or shoes they brick scrap you talk out of the heart you're talking crap is everything interest will be done by slaves of focus yes but if everyone was rich no one would want to engage in the dirty business of selling slaves it's the way the world works essentially poverty is what makes the rich rich what we have is poverty located at the very center of the operation of the system as the engine of the system when that happens we begin to perceive poverty or something natural something inevitable something that we will never be able to read ourselves of you'll feel this time you are working to learn how to escape poverty instead they say so now you know you are going to be poor for a long long time but history has a new concept that can help you charity all the world's religions offer it but which one has the best deal you find yourself banging the middle of the Middle Ages and the Middle East in a strange room there are planks of wood saws hammers a menorah you must be a Jewish carpenter you start barricading the boom but why in urban areas and for example in cities such as Cairo which would have been a population in late Middle Ages 200 250 thousand people there were large numbers of people who slept out of doors there are also people who slept in very primitive or simple accommodations people who who lived in small huts people who lived in tents people who slept in ditches or on benches side of the road you want that poor yet but you might you all money in taxes so just my terrorist you then how would you and your family survive during the Friday prayer the beggars would line up outside the mosque sometimes what do you bother to go ahead and pray but they were lying outside the mosque and when the butcher purse would come out from the Friday prayer they would beg nobody thought that you would abolish poverty probably was simply accepted as a fact of life charity is a good deed if you give alms to the poor this is a way of in a sense making up for your own sins and bad deeds a single act of charity closes seventy gates of evil the only gift is giving to the poor or else is exchanged the wise one rejoicing in charity becomes thereby happy in the beyond so you begin to write a letter to your local rabbi I've never asked for money from anyone that I have debts owed to Muslims I'm in hiding I'm watching my children and my old mother starve I throw myself before God and you to help me help Oh God see from the tax collectors and you step into a different world 200 years and in time now you have nothing just a bad leg and a crotch you are a beggar in a sea of beggars Paris around 1282 is the biggest city in Western Europe with a population of 200,000 or so we have no statistics that would enable us to count the number of poor in Paris but but a good guess would be some 50% of the population is either laboring poor non laboring poor as a young pig herder named Morris a who's probably not even a teenager yet and goes home to his knowledge around Easter week as soon as he gets home something happens to his legs and he can't walk anymore his brother allows him to stay for two months but then he says to him you know look I have five kids to support and a wife you've got to move on so he goes on to a the local village hospital stays there for around two months by this time his disability has erupted into an enormous boozing tumor in his legs which is annoying the other inmates because of its smell they encourage him to seek a miraculous cure at a shrine in Paris there are thousands here like beggars in the church you are attending a funeral when neither you nor any of the other poor people here knew the man who died what's important is that you have heard he was minted one of the richest land owners around there is a sermon let all the brothers strive to follow the poverty of our Lord Jesus Christ and let them rejoice when they find themselves among the poor the weak they seek and those who beg don't say that you think to yourself or everyone we want to try this lifestyle two years the crowd has doubled in size and it is full of monks in robes begging like you suddenly you get a new kind of religious order that is imitating the behavior of the poor themselves of Franciscan Order the Dominican Order and part of their expression of their own piety and self-abnegation is to go out begging in the streets and those beggars were then in competition with the real poor the basic lesson of medieval poverty is that there are bureaucracies and systems being built on the sufferings of others all the time and that's true now as it has always been and you look at your average medieval four people maybe designed to honor the poor and yet I don't think many of the statues and monuments are very eatable or more helpful at last money left by the rich nobleman is being handed out by the priests make sure you get some before ID runs out we have examples of wills in which uh furriers and other kinds of merchants were setting aside large amounts of money in one case enough money so that 20000 people apparently were given one penny each at his funeral apparently there could be students of people being crushed in these arms giving against I look at yourself now you are the ruler of a Latin American civilization the income you are rich but you are about to become poor faster than anyone else in history the era of colonialism has begun the Spanish have conquered your country if you fill this room with gold they won't kill you so they say poverty is the consequence of plunder behind every single form of modern poverty you find the use of force now you have been put in prison you see your people are dying the colonizers brought new diseases with them influenza syphilis that are killing half your people Europeans made Latin America poorer in many ways their land was taken from them they were displaced they didn't have the means to sustain themselves and they were obliged to work in the plantations in the haciendas in the mines so that they could attract the silver and gold which Europeans valued this is what turned vast numbers of Latin American peoples into effectively the wretched of the earth the Inca Emperor has is wandering within your dream the world does not look like it does to the Europe is not yet much richer than anywhere else you wonder how all that changed Latin America a physically European colonizers are laying the foundations of modern poverty you look through the clouds at Africa trying to see if they are hungry yet West Africans were Kannamma Klee savvy those who participated in columbic productivity of economic production were numerous especially the ordinary people when the portuguese showed up at the end of the 15th century in the beginning of the 16th century the swahili societies from Mogadishu all the way to kill one of the coast of Mozambique where at the height of their history in terms of their commercial civilization to the point that the Portuguese sailors looked at these coastal towns bustling with economic activity and they felt that you know we need to take over in many communities land was relatively abundant and by accounts of mysteries and soldiers they rated congos agriculture as more productive and Portugal's and in the area of two crafts or industries one was textiles the other was iron making they considered this equal to a passenger when you look at this phenomenon in terms of planetary history Europe until the until 1492 more or less was a peripheral part of the world system in that respect you could say it was relatively poor and so on and so forth but that wasn't the case everywhere else in fact if you look at Africa Asia and America you will have seen societies thriving in their own terms then afterwards that situation changes radically and iron ring around your neck you the Emperor the Incas are being executed the technical term for this painful death is got ot C and you feel yourself falling then crawling through the center of the world you emerge on the other side in China a young girl in a huge field nothing can grow here there could be a famine and yet you feel safe in China from the times of the earliest records famine prevention flood control were considered to be the essential tasks of the rulers the 1743 famine was famous because there was a model relief effort undertaken in that crisis when this crisis occurred first of all there was a weather report so they knew in advance drought is predictable because it doesn't just come suddenly it develops from the lack of rain over a period of months so they knew that a drought was coming the granaries were full in this famine it is possible that two million people were recipients of grain relief you have been saved from death by famine lucky you are not in the West but in the East in a well done country poverty is something to be ashamed of in a badly governed country wealth is something to be ashamed of China in the last say two centuries 19th and 20th centuries has been poor and been regarded as poor but since Marco Polo's time all the way through the 18th century those Europeans who had any kind erect contact with China were terribly impressed with its wealth and did not regard it as a backward country the European states were much smaller in scale they didn't have state-operated granary systems they had a different political ideology so it isn't so much could they have done it would they have wanted to and they didn't you are on a cot with all your family's belongings piled high the start of a new journey for you your father tells you that he is fed up with the pre-modern poverty and scraping a living off the land he sold his little farm to a big landowner for a few coins and all your neighbors daddies have done the same that process of moving from a community form of agriculture where a whole village participated in the process and define themselves as almost an agricultural collective to one in which you have essentially capitalist land holding and individual forms you can view it either as a land grab by the rich or a a process of creating a greater and more efficient system it was both if it is AG and as the Hammoud as a spy fool of a thousand gaped at ina Pfizer and the Langer on Joseph's father who dimension invasion begin in lending in regular won't happen it's why defies its Tandy father was a coarse aesthetic build at home when indecent straighten some s multi-course of English hardened of kittens and was likeness problem their relative an armored this by none designs for - and Harman some problem border welcome to a city in the edge of Industry you are spending the next 200 years toiling away ten or Zetian the machines get faster and faster have you feel you are working harder and harder to keep up in the first decades of the Industrial Revolution there wasn't much increase of living standards of those in the industrial labour force these were the satanic Mills there was a mass child labour and and it was a pretty horrible scene but the Industrial Revolution has set the world on a course of huge reductions of extreme poverty what was 90 percent of the world in 1800 as of 2011 might be something on the order of 15 to 20 percent of the world accurately judged to be living in extreme poverty that's human progress you are a 12 year old cloud worker you spin wool without hundred other boys the bus stops you on points to the door there is no work for you anymore war has disrupted your markets your factory cannot deliver the yarn to the weavers what you end up with is a entirely different kind of risk environment risk that comes from having to have moved across the country perhaps for a specialist job what happens when the kind of machine you're used to working on ceases to be the most up-to-date and is replaced all of that creates a kind of insecurity that is new you pass the street workers of your city the chimney sweeps matchbox cellars beggars and prostitutes you're scared the important people in top hats have a new way of helping the poor the workhouse is a machine for grinding robes honest and one of the great responses to poverty and urban poverty in particular was the workhouse or the poorhouse most of them start off trying to be punitive they start off thinking that they're going to have lots of able-bodied men who they can put to work and make lots of money from and what happens again and again is it they find that the people they were actually giving relief to are women or the elderly and the disabled and as a result they very quickly become relatively benign places nobody wants to starve a 90 year old woman I mean this doesn't happen it's after the workhouse for you as in costume the doorway your body changes the hair grows along chest expands there is a big bump on your stomach personally I always come back to is a woman named Jane Brown she was 17 year old prostitute living near Covent Garden and she got pregnant she had nowhere to go she had no family she had no resources and so what she did well she waited until just before she was due to give birth and then she simply presented herself at the door to Saint Clement Danes workhouse and of course there was nothing they could do the baby wasn't going to wait and so she ended up in a specialist maternity ward in the hospital giving birth to a very healthy young boy staying in the workhouse against all the policies of the parish for the next six months and in effect she played the system the poor figure out how the system works and make it work for them I know you enter a dining room full of thin hungry little boys something reminds you of a book you once read the boys are being served a horrid looking soup one of them perhaps he is your son stands up and walks up to the man in charge and words of his ball and says Marley he wants more Oliver Twist is the kind of classic example of the objectified pauper is a perfect small child thrown onto the Seas of an uncaring world I mean essentially Dickens creates half the stereotypes we have of work houses and and poverty there was a whole generation of urban Argonauts off to the slums in order to find a stereotype to write up for their eager readers it was almost a pornography of poverty in response there is a public outcry and the government is forced to in turn respond to poverty the rich often seem to want to help the poor but it never seems to change the system ahead of you you see Karl Marx the founder of communism you ask him why are the rich getting richer but not me so rich will do anything to the poor except stop exploiting them Karl is Max and makes you a cup of tea you tell him I want to rise out of poverty but how can I do this let's a ruling class his chamber I got communist revolution Karl Marx basically believed that poverty was the result of the capitalist system the capitalist system being one in which companies are organized for profit and their main motive is to make more profit and he believed that you could maximize profit by keeping wages as low as possible you look around for the revolutionary industrial polit area that uncle Karl told you bones what you find yourself swept along in different kind of growth thousands of peasants and freed slaves are going up into the mountains of Brazil you know you are a father a follower of a renegade preacher Antonia conselheiro whose teachings combined Christianity communism free love and of course the end of the world the reign of God is nine he will descend in majesty cast down the mighty and exalted suffers the poor he is poor Antonio consul later preached the end of days thus turning the language of religion into a a political weapon with economic consequences two years later and you have a new one in a new city of the poor thirty thousand people live here the brazilian republic of reacts here in order to suppress what was effectively a movement of the wretched of the earth reclaiming their own futures quick man the barricades of the city go rifle is walled and rusty and you are under attack from the brazilian army there are ten thousand troops with machine guns and yet their bullets can't find the real revolutionary proletarian you strike you protest fight so comrades come rally across the world you overthrow governments though sometimes you have to settle for equal rights and higher wages really doesn't just give way mass improvements I think come from people organizing themselves forget the poor out of poverty you are on your way up in the ways the government builds sewers and installs water pipes sanitation is better than revolution what did begin to change in the industrializing countries in the middle of the 19th century was a rise of real incomes even in the working-class world wars come and go there's even a Great Depression but you still feel things are getting better now there are suburbs motorcars fridges vacuum cleaners TVs is difficult to work out exactly what is reducing poverty how did they achieve that that's the interesting question science and technology social housing agricultural productivity revolutionary movements a bit of free-market ideology voice was very fast and we don't really understand why something was catches up somewhere you can amidst are just not able to predict like you have to do this diseases and this and ghosts will catch up there is no like kind of formula that helps to do that when it happens if it happens then you know a lot of problems get solved you're on top of the world again but time has moved forward to presently you look down and you can see the same things you saw in Europe and America no in India China Latin America there are industrial zones modern hospitals apartment blocks and tea parties on the way slowly but surely there are fewer people who live on over the holiday today than five years ago then five year before than fire before swimming an equal in some countries more than other but it's kind of happening it doesn't turn in your sleep you think while few people are starving there is still a massive on the glass service in the rich why are they still there you want an answer you are on the pond'rous and beyond the tall mountains lies the key turning motion in the distance there are some things you have never seen before by the end of the 19th century there was already a sustained movement out of poverty for those parts of the world that were industrializing that of course begs lots of questions what about the rest of the world what was happening was it improving their standard or not what did the colonial era mean we see a world of inequality in which you have Europe as the center of accumulation of wealth and power and the rest of the world being progressively submitted to its rule Africa's poverty has deep roots the slave trade devastated societies and devastated the continent Africa stood out with the intense poverty with the lack of infrastructure with the massive disease burden it's a busy market and you are selling care people are paying you in beautiful shells these are what you have used for centuries as mother every time you sell a garment you put more shells in your jaw then the colonial police arrive they don't like your money carry shells for example was an important form of currency it was one of the local currencies that colonial governments tried to make illegal so irrespective of how wealthy you were and if you doubt in trade you dealt it textiles or you are former slave owner or whatever you had loads of carriage shells you find out that it had become rubbish essentially overnight the whole of the European imperial project was about creating an international global system that in economic terms creates the poor and that is the origin of that notion of the third world look your skin has turned a shade of brown you are in a camp somewhere else a month ago you are starving Indian farmer but no you are starving for Snickers plus you have color which is bad news that train goes past on a new railway built by the British a cloud floats of it a cloud of wheat something to eat you realize the Train is full of grain destined for export poverty is the worst form of violence the 1876 southern Indian famine was in part an issue of simple bad weather there was a harvest failure but it didn't need to be a famine you had a situation where people were starving and still exporting grain a lot of southern Indian grain was being shipped as far away as Britain huge amounts of food were shipped out of India that could have fed the six to ten million people who eventually died you serve alcohol to the poor black workers of South Africa once they were farmers but the white man took their land away by day they go down to the mines in the evening they talk about a system that made them poor because of the color of their skin the 1913 Land Act made it difficult for South Africans to buy land and what it did would be to set aside large tracts of land for white South Africans blacks were needed in cities as labor you did not have to provide housing for African families you didn't have to pay them a living wage women would take in laundry they would cook food they would brew beard that is how gradually we begin to see all these shanty settlements in the proximity of cities looking to the glass into which you are pouring a bottle of homebrew images flow through it of the coming 30 years of history there are swarms of tanks bombing reasons concentration camps then happier images LED pandas would you agree Victoria knew flags applying black people here after the birth of the United Nations you have the onset of nationalism in both Africa and Asia and the birth of new nations so India 47 rest the Gold Coast in sub-saharan Africa in 1957 all these become members of the United Nations and so issues such as the end of colonialism the relative wealth and poverty of Nations are discussed within the UN Oh you look different you are wearing a dress of expensive fabric and surrounded by men in suits you are no longer poor instead you are a future leader of a poor country you've come to hear a speech more than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery their poverty is a handicap and a threat posed to them and to more prosperous areas for the first time in history humanity possesses the knowledge and skill to relieve the suffering of these people a new chapter in history of poverty is beginning the world is now divided into rich countries and poor countries the rich countries at long last admit they have to help the poor ones if you look at the way in which people were thinking in the 40s and 50s the idea was it we could create a working system that addressed poverty across that whole global economic system Oh a lift press the highest book the roof is like an airport clean the flying overhead and helicopters are taking up with full cargoes of gear there are loads of new seeds and medicines in the 50s and 60s coordinated international efforts to develop a better variety of cereals which could go in particular in Asia really increase the productivity of the land and so the Green Revolution really took hundreds of millions people out from the brink of starvation turned India from a country which didn't have enough food to a countries actually exports food daily captain blow a strong wind that drives you backwards towards the Olivia turn this time there are only two buttons China and Africa you press the China border you jinuk you on a giant communal farm in time for Chairman Mao's Great Leap Forward Mao was very concerned not with the poverty of individuals and their families but the poverty of the nation as a whole and wanted to raise China's economic status poverty gives rise to desire for change desire for action his are for revolution the idea was um that we don't need foreign aid we don't need lots of capital nessam because China has lots of people and so all the people in China could be put to work on these large-scale projects surely China could be just as productive as the advanced industrialized countries look down at your hands you are will in pots and pans and metal farming implements everyone else's hands I would in the same thing a head is a big fire in order to make a China productive and steel he said everybody should have their own steel furnaces and everyone's so-called backyard or every communes backyard and so each commune was under strict orders to produce a certain amount of steel and people didn't have the means to do this they were told they could melt down their pots and pans was terrible unusable most of it nothing left to cook with but I so care because there's nothing to eat anywhere Mao's Great Famine or the Great Leap Forward famine was the horrible outcome it was a cataclysmic event which had an enormous mortality toll the accepted figure now is 30 million excess deaths over three years if only you had press the button in the Olivia tomate Africa and there it is again run for it press the other button you are shown to a seat at a big table a black man surrounded by white businessmen they all address you as mr. president we gonna was the first independent African country and it had a great leader Kwame Nkrumah from 1957 Ghana yep another control he's free forever the aid piled in at that stage a lot of credit from private companies as well as aid from the West it is clear that we've received as a continent enormous amount of a the outcome or the results our question they want to help you build factories in a young country which they say will make your people rich one month says first you have to build the biggest dam in the world then another says we will help you by lending you millions of dollars all you have to do is promise to pay it back at a huge rate of interest they built this huge dam the Valter Dam and created this entire new lake the idea was that Ghana would become the world leader of aluminium refinery and bauxite and it was really a sort of brave new world idea so they did produce the raw material but wasn't very efficient and the returns from that were abysmal the belief was very much if we could just give the countries more resources undertake the right projects build the biggest dams then trickle-down economics would work the economy would grow and the benefits would go to everybody Africa and much of the developing world accumulated that's money that should have been grants in the first place where loans instead when these countries couldn't repay these loans they were really put through a squeeze by the IMF and the World Bank development ideas went out the window big projects usually fail the debt prevented Ghana growing for the next 20 years poor Nkrumah was thrown out of power so there's our committee offices and they are forcing you to flee you are chased as you run you see terrible sights there are children with Kalashnikovs amputations rips massacres famines those famines aren't about you know the lack of food in the world there aren't frequently as in Somalia at the moment not even about lack of aid we know that the harvest is going to fail in Eastern Africa once every 12 or 15 years if you have a working state and your harvest fails you raise the cash and you buy in food and you ship it in and you make sure it's distributed you don't allow people to starve there is a formula of capitalism plus welfare state - civil war equals poverty reduction well I guess it as is most simplest that is the case if you can get it you don't always get it you know you often get capitalism without a welfare state welfare state without successful economy and either way then you're stuck there are ever greater contrasts slums spreading outwards and skyscrapers loony once refugees fleeing across bridges and highways packed with new cars portions full of container ships comes full of starving families you go down to take a closer look you are appearing in a TV game sure it's called who wants to be a billionaire the horse chats to the first competitor usually she's a lady from Bangladesh who borrowed money from a microfinance bank at low rates of interest which she used to invest in her street star and now she runs a supermarket the most important way of getting out of poverty is make to make sure that everybody can earn their way out of poverty one way or another lula the ex-president of brazil he was born into poverty and he had some ideas about how to help others out of it Brazil had had widening inequality one wondered where their society was going they first began by investing heavily in education trying to provide incentives to make sure that parents sent their children to school and these programs break the Nexus of poverty then there was chats to you the contestant from China your name is dong Cheng ha you were a poor farm Lea Brown went to the city and started selling ice lollies and in 20 years you built that up into China's largest drinks company with a drink called future Cola Cola China over the last 30 years has shown that it is possible to make major dents in poverty to really bring it down several hundred million people and moved out of poverty in China the question for you which the billion dollar prize rests what reduces poverty today is it a egg the communism si state spending or D globalization the kind of mobility that's possible at both Geographic mobility and social mobility is something welcomed even by the very very poor people who go to the cities who you know are construction workers and don't get paid and get abused and you hear all these stories why are they there at all they're there at all because it gives them an opportunity at least however cruel and uncomfortable to better their circumstances if you're mentioning the fact that an important number of people have been lifted out of poverty inverted commas in China you need to also take into account the fact that they have had to migrate from their traditional communities in order to work in inhumane conditions in factories in China I'm sure that working in such conditions is not something that anyone in the right mind would call you know getting richer hmm it's still so difficult to decide but you go for normalization the horse says that is the correct but before he can finish his sentence I riot erupts across the TV so Bolivian farmers are protesting that the water supply has been sold off to a private corporation as if any second as a dusty global is young and a flash desire is the Frog is newer under bacon Hayden as forget Stabbin is the Reagan the funding - food - Oscar by the thousand capital can own a virus Cuba in fleecing you biochemist Phi Z purveying on he and the sea are not investing on Survivor our Albert Albert scuffed candor sneaked as an Armour endured as an Albert scuffed sober speeder gallant had women harsh NIDA Don's on a freezer Teddy cut in deutschland order in America also universe today behind a lesson there is a very large queue in front of a nameless you want a visa you fill out a form that goes on and on pH after peel who designed this as a behind against under out front armored phones happen as in the Fagin idea if today are motet here and Berkeley Kevin roomful so by India Allah armor daughter xea Lystra mighty availa the alma de hefted a man-child had oil - entered tripod sent this global on how sides iron Commons that on Zeidman shown thus the our mood for my past and this is see me claw Desmond evades early organ easier encounter does the armor hefty massage from spots entered the Swedish own and against a HIPAA based on digital shown the veneks is the absolute armored bizarre converter you give the form to a man who tears it up in your fears yeah and now you are on an endless ocean in a tiny board you are escaping from your poor country to a rich country but as you look down you see that the ocean is full of banknotes flowing from your homeland towards the place where you are going the example Oskaloosa austin arm and then the burn of anger fear thousand million who has tolerate the strict on the fair artists a mild example of its here in in treatments here ad in de Landa in nine fleas la vidas and a reform these systems near traumas from idle bite hard order as the exemplar in thickness here fair dinkum listen friend at Verdun so busy in Washington in ganef Indian metal poor innovators can handle them weren't dealing the amazing won't harm offending hints Overton come and dissociate Iran P sahiba dime Afghani Haram and now you find you have that job in a rich country in a rich company an auction house but you're just an unpaired intern your job is to carry out the paintings at the auction this one is edward monks the screen we don't know which way it's going to go will the world become more divided will climate change rising world populations rising tensions arising inequalities actually create a growing underclass in the rich countries that begins to mirror the underclass in the poor countries the bidding is running into tens of millions every time the auction here brings down his hammer you hear the painting scroll and see another apocalyptic future world recession noble warning a virus with no cure and then you wake up it was only a dream it's time to get up and go out you walk out the front door you are walking down a street in a modern city amidst a crowd they are marching there was an idea called trickle-down economics if you could just get the economy to grow everybody would would benefit look sometimes a rising tide lifts all boats that's nonsense it's not true it's been a remarkable increase in inequality society been stagnation we're talking we're talking about very marked declines of people at the bottom you start off with a problem and the minute you get the solution right the middle classes and the rich pile in and take all the resources the rich get richer while the poor get poorer and that becomes a widespread perception that could have severe consequences for our economic and political stability you turn a corner you see a house your house these are all the things you own and this is your mirror and it's like a moment from a dream except it's real and now you are poor you

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Length: 58min 5sec (3485 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 03 2013

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[u/quantumchaos]

i've only gotten about 1/2 way through this but this is an excellent example of how the western wealthy even when they knew of ways to combat poverty chose not to repeatedly throughout history.